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Two years later, in 1785, Lenormand coined the word " parachute " by hybridizing the prefix para -, for " defense against ," and chute, the French word for " fall ," to describe the device's function, the word literally meaning " that which protects against a fall.
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Two years later he became director of the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained until he lost this position in 1933 through the rise of the Hitler regime.
( Two years ago the photography editor of Vogue Magazine titled his article about Steichen, `` The World's Greatest Photographer ''.
Two or three times, C. C. Burlingham came to lunch with us in Weston, that wonderful man who lived to be more than a hundred years old and whose birthplace had been my Wall Street suburb.
Two years ago, the Institute of Public Administration issued an extremely comprehensive report entitled `` State-Local Relations In Metropolitan Rhode Island.
Two were in the same band 18 years ago ; ;
Two years ago Thompson offered his collection to the city.
Two hundred years later western and central Anatolia came under Roman control, but it continued to be strongly influenced by Hellenistic culture.
Two species are described in the literature: A. ramidus, which lived about 4. 4 million years ago during the early Pliocene, and A. kadabba, dated to approximately 5. 6 million years ago ( late Miocene ).
Two years later, in 1817, Shah Khalil Allah was killed during a conflict between some of his followers and local shopkeepers.
Two years later, in 1120, he defeated a Muslim army intent on reconquering his new capital at the Battle of Cutanda.
Two years before their first opening day, Colangelo hired Buck Showalter, the American League Manager of the Year in 1994 with the New York Yankees.
Two years later, he received the prestigious National Order of the Legion of Honor, and in 1991, was awarded the First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor of Japan.
Two hundred years before Michell wrote the above, there were no archaeoastronomers and there were no professional archaeologists, but there were astronomers and antiquarians.
) Two years later, Capp's studio issued Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, a 1958 biographical comic book distributed by The Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Two years later, to avenge his sister, Absalom, Amnon's half-brother and Tamar's full brother, sent his servants to kill Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.
Two years later, she returned to her husband and children at his urging, and she went on to become a well-known Danish author, living to the age of 83.
Two years later, the Emperor Valens, who favored the Arian position, in his turn exiled Athanasius.
Two years later, the re-elected Clinton became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term as president.
Two years later the Lions toured in South Africa, winning more than half of their normal matches.
Two years later, WHDH-FM was licensed, and on November 26, 1957, WHDH-TV made its début as an ABC affiliate on channel 5.
Two years later it became part of the Worlds of Wonder boxed set.
Two years later, Ezra Newman found the axisymmetric solution for a black hole that is both rotating and electrically charged.
Two years later, Fate magazine published " Sea Mystery at Our Back Door ", a short article by George X.
Two years later Basel joined the Swiss Confederation.
Two and later
Two minutes later it came again -- a double explosion, followed by a third, sounding more distant.
Two days later Mr. Rayburn left Washington for the last time.
Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.
Two members of the panel later told in court about receiving telephone calls at their homes from anonymous persons expressing interest in the trial.
Two days later the legislature elected the outgoing governor to the U. S. Senate.
Two months later, the Athenians under Myronides invaded Boeotia, and winning the Battle of Oenophyta gained control of the whole country except Thebes.
Two weeks later a French envoy continued to foment the revolutionary opinions of the city.
Two days later, in a nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress, Clinton unveiled his economic plan.
Two decades later, the current parliament building was erected.
Two hours later the Duke followed with the main body: 74 battalions, 123 squadrons, 90 pieces of artillery and 20 mortars, totalling 62, 000 troops.
Two hours later the Duke, accompanied by the Dutch field commander Field Marshal Overkirk, General Daniel Dopff, and the Allied staff, rode up to Cadogan where on the horizon to the westward he could discern the massed ranks of the French army deploying for battle along the four mile ( 6. 4 km ) front.
Two months later, the AL declared itself a competing major league.
Two months later he married Ditta Pásztory ( 1903 – 1982 ), a piano student, ten days after proposing to her.
Two and 1785
In 1780, a farm was reclaimed on the site of an ancient tenement near the Two Bridges, and in 1785, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt set about improving the moor at a place which he named Tor Royal, about south-east of Princetown.
Two were near Rudfen: as well as Duck Park there was a park that was called Little Park in 1581, was owned by Robert Briscoe in 1649 and was still called Briscoe's Park in 1785.
* Two Heroines Monument ( อน ุ สาวร ี ย ์ ว ี รสตร ี), is a monument in Amphoe Thalang, a memorial statue of the heroines Thao Thep Kasattri ( Kunying Jan ) and Thao Sri Sunthon ( Mook ), who rallied islanders in 1785 to repel Burmese invaders.
Two years later ( 28 September 1784 ), her father remarried the younger sister of his deceased wife, Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, but this union ended just one year later, when Charlotte died of complications resulting from childbirth on 12 December 1785.
Two years later, he attended the College of Philadelphia, studying medicine under Dr. Thomas Shippen, and attended Dr. Benjamin Rush's lectures in 1785.
Two more sons followed: George ( 1778 – 1813 ) and Charles Webb ( 1785 – 1844 ).
Two single manual harpsichords with disposition 8 ' 8 ' are signed by Joaquin José: one dated 1758, now in the Museu da Música, Lisbon and one dated 1785, now in the Finchcocks collection, Goudhurst, Kent.
Two other well-known textbooks of Bingham's, also on reading, grammar, and oratory, were The American Preceptor ( 1794 ) and The Young Lady's Accidence ( 1785 ).
Two of his sons were Benjamin, headmaster of Harrow ( 1771 – 1785 ), and George, headmaster of Eton ( 1796 ).
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